7/24/2010 - Cupcakes - Just because

Had some extra batter from making the next cake I'm going to post and extra frosting from the previous cake so threw together some cupcakes just because.

Baby Shower - Cristina Gibson 6/25/10

Had a baby shower at work for a co-worker.  This cake was made using the Wilton Stork Pan.  It was a chocolate cake decorated with medium consistency buttercream icing.

The cake wasn't that big so I made some cupcakes to go with it.  They were vanilla cake also iced with buttercream, decorated with plastic baby shapes.

Pink bootie, white chocolate suckers were the party favors for everyone.

Birthday Cupcakes - 7/18/09

No gumpaste daisies this year for Diane and Dana.  They wanted simple yellow cupcakes with chocolate frosting so that is what they got!

Baby Shower cupcakes - 1/11/09

My Sorority Alumnae Chapter held a baby shower for one of our sister's.  I didn't have time to make anyting fancy so I kept it simple with strawberry cupcakes with strawberry frosting.  It was also an excuse for me to buy the cupcake stand that I've been wanting to get!

Mike's Bowling Birthday cake - 8/16/08

My boyfriend wanted to go bowling for his birthday. So, me being the coordinating freak that I am, had to make a cake to match!

The ball was made using the round pan which bakes the cake in two halves.  The pins were made with a cupcake, a mini cupcake upside down and a donut hole on top of that.  They were held together with icing and then frozen to set-up.  Then white frosting was melted and they were dunked in to give the smooth finished coating.  Once the icing thawed though, the cupcakes started to fall apart and lean.  If I had it to do over I would dunk them in melted white chocolate.  The red accents on the pins were made by cutting up some fruit-by-the-foot snacks.  The whole thing was made up of both chocolate and white cake.

Brenda and Butch Rybicki Wedding Cake - 7/26/08

My mom and her boyfriend after being together for 16  or 17 years decided to get married!  I went up to MI for the wedding and also made the cake!  I borrowed most of the supplies from one of my mom's co-workers and took a few of my own things with me in my luggage.

The layers of cake were lemon, strawberry, and chocolate flavors.  The icing was buttercream (as you can see it did not exactly cooperate with me up there in MI - I didn't have my trusty Kitchen Aid mixer with me) and the flowers were made of royal icing.

Had extra batter so made some cupcakes to go with the cake.

Lessons learned from this cake:

1. Always make sure to have a GOOD mixer to make the buttercream.

2. Even the slightest bit of humidity causes buttercream icing to not come together very well.

3. When borrowing pans - make sure to have the instructions for how much batter will fit in the pan and what temperature and how long to bake for.